Police searching for three who tried to get into West Bloomfield home posing as FBI agents

Three people posing as FBI agents on Thursday tried to con their way into a West Bloomfield woman’s home, investigators say, and now detectives are looking for the public’s help in finding them.

The suspects startled the woman around 7:43 p.m. near the back of her home in the 5000 block of West Bloomfield Lake Road by knocking, identifying themselves as FBI and telling her she needed to open the door.

When the victim, 25, asked what they wanted, they replied they had a package for her husband in their car. All three were armed with semi-automatic handguns and were wearing black clothing with blue FBI lettering on their shirts.

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The victim denied the suspects — who were aiming at her — then left the area where the suspects were standing and called 9-1-1, police say.

The men went to the front of the house to try to get inside, but when the woman yelled that she had called police, the suspects fled in a black Mercedes sedan with tinted windows.

West Bloomfield police are now looking for the suspects, who the victim said looked like they were possibly of Middle Eastern descent. The woman suspect had straight, brown, medium length hair, she told authorities.

Detectives are also looking into a possible connection to two similar incidents in Sterling Heights, where suspects either posed as police or AFT — Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives — agents. Those suspects were recognized by one of the victims as possibly being a Facebook friend, according to reports.

West Bloomfield Lt. Curt Lawson reports the police department has also informed the FBI about the incident.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the West Bloomfield Police Department at 248-975-9200.